Morgan Park (Duluth, Minn.)

The collection consists of one 60 minute audiocassette tape. Subjects include Morgan Park.

The collection contains research materials collected and used by Arnold R. Alanen while writing his book Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town, which was published in 2007 by University of Minnesota Press.

The collection consists of family photographs that document women workers in the U. S. Steel plant in Morgan Park, and one work identification badge.

The collection consists of one audiocassette tape of an oral history interview about life in Morgan Park.

The collections contains research materials compiled to write Dr. Hudelson's book published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2006 titled By the Ore Docks: A Working People’s History of Duluth.

The collection contains one 16mm, black and white, silent film (17 min.) of a 1936 mining inspection trip and tour conducted by U.S. Steel and Ford, Bacon, and Davis, Inc. The tour included Duluth, Minnesota and the surrounding area including the iron range.

The collection consists of one folder of correspondence (1909-1912) between Minnesota Steel Company and American Hoist and Derrick Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. The correspondence concerns the purchase and installation of two locomotive cranes from American Hoist and Derrick by the Minnesota Steel Company.

The collection contains minutes, reports by the relief committee which visited Club members who were ill or in need of financial assistance, correspondence, files from the credit union operated by the Club, fuel deduction lists indicating individuals who participated in the Club's program for the joint purchase of heating fuel, financial records, photographs, and architectural drawings.

The collection contains a bound record book of numerical listing of patients treated at the Morgan Park private hospital in Duluth, Minnesota.

The collection consists of minutes, lists of committee members, funding information, expenses, exhibit subjects and timeline, a CD of the final exhibit on site.

The collection consists of the records of the Morgan Park School PTA.

The collection holds: Fishing licenses (1938-1961), 15 photographs of Morgan Park Good Fellowship Club and U.S. Steel Plant activities and personnel (1915-1925, 1950); 2 newspaper clippings of appointment of Grand Herald in Odd Fellows (1931); notice of GFC meeting (n.d.); list of contributors to Emil Scalise’s retirement gift; Army Navy E War Production Award certificate (1945); April 29, 1934 United Protestant Church Odd Fellows program.

The collection contains descriptions of the new American Steel and Wire Division plant; a news release, a tour folder, two booklets on the Duluth plant and a booklet on the American Steel and Wire Division describing the industry and all its plants with eight photographs. Also included are photograph albums and photographic negatives.

The amateur video consists of 10 minutes of silent black and white footage from 1972 of the plant grounds, plus five minutes of color footage from 1986.

The collection consists of one 90 minute audiocassette tape oral history interview narrated by a resident of the Duluth neighborhood Morgan Park.

The collection consists of three interviews concerning union organizing activities, factory working conditions, labor politics, and the experiences of Croatian immigrants in northern Minnesota. Earl Bester, Nick Borovack, and Joe Paszak were interviewed by Jean Johnson of radio station WDTH.

The collection consists of two interviews that cover topics and recollections spanning 1919-1960s. The narrators are Sally E. Solomon (approximately 75 minutes) and Pearl Barker (85 minutes).

The collection is the product of classroom assignments by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Social Sciences courses from 1990-1993.